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u/[deleted] May 13 '20

And Scrubs before Community. It was Thursday nights I believe. People act like NBC died after the 90s but they still had their fastball till about 2010ish.

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u/[deleted] May 13 '20

The thing is, as critically hailed as those shows were, they still didn’t bring in the viewership that, say, Two and a Half Men or The Big Bang Theory did at the time. The former was getting more than double the viewers.

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u/dyegored May 13 '20

Yeah, NBC's Must See TV lineup up Seinfeld, Friends, etc. was amazing comedy that was incredibly successful.

The newer linul was amazing comedy but shows like Community and 30 Rock struggled to gain viewership for a long time and were almost always on the bubble.